Murdoch's Banishment is but a first step in cleaning up the media....

[ProfessionalLeftist]

After the election last year, nothing changed. In fact, the Conservative-led coalition allowed even greater access to these dreadful people and was about to return favours by waving through the BSkyB purchase, a deal that was palpably against the interests of British society. The full accounting on this has not properly begun. What undertakings were given before the poll? We need assurances that phone-hacking and other covert methods were not used during the last few elections.

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The public needs to address its attitudes too – the contempt for the private and inner lives of the famous and the disregard for the pain of ordinary people is what led Murdoch's journalists to hack phones and pay the police. Let's start by grasping that respect for privacy, our own and other people's, is a civic responsibility, a moral obligation, which should be applied with the same rigour as the laws concerning property.

Politicians should be thinking these things and leading the debate about where we find ourselves this weekend. Instead, they are shuffling their feet and wondering how to save their skins. With the expulsion of Rupert Murdoch from our national life, we have a glorious opportunity for meaningful reform: let's seize it.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/17/henry-porter-murdoch-brooks-media

[Angry Dragon]

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